Transformation Governance: How Trenton’s City Council Makes Excellence Inevitable

Transformation Governance: How Trenton’s City Council Makes Excellence Inevitable

For several years dating back to 2019, I have written about what it will take to transform Trenton: higher standards, operational excellence, moral leadership, and accountability rooted in compassion. Recent conversations with current and former City Council members—alongside the growing field of candidates entering this year’s Council races—have sharpened an important realization. Transformation does not fail for lack of concern or good intenti…